How to Plan and Enjoy the Ultimate Family Vacation

We will never be bored of travelling, and this enthusiasm for discovering new places will never diminish. For thousands of centuries, man has been exploring the world and it seems a never ending ordeal. Everyone desires to go on a nice holiday in between work to revitalize them. Now c'mon, barring a few workaholics, everyone needs a bit of rest now and then.

Singapore, though a small city state, it is one the most developed countries in Asia with numerous tourist destinations. The place has so much to offer; whether you are looking to upgrade to some flash packer luxury for a while or trying to stick to a tight budget.

The roots of the traditional inlay work can be found in Italy and Iran - This inlay art in local terms is known as Pacchikari work and in Italian terms as Pietra-Dura work. Pietra meaning stone and Dura signifying as tough. Earlier this work was done by glazed tiles as well in same buildings of Turkey, Uzbekistan and Iran. Shah Jahan, the Mughal emperor summoned the best Inlayers from distant parts and gave them space in Agra in the modern Taj Ganj and Gokulpura areas of Agra City.

Coming home from a vacation can be tough. Not only are you going back to work, but you know it is going to be three, six, or even twelve months until your next trip. But for people who can't take extra time off from work, there is always the option of the weekend getaway. Here are three suggestions for the next time you need to get out of the house but only have a couple of days.

Madaraka Day is a public holiday in Kenya and usually marked by a long weekend that gives Kenyans a chance to travel. It is at the tail-end of the rainy season as well, giving Kenyans all the more reason to get out of town and enjoy a holiday. Rhino Charge, an incredible 4x4 rally in isolated bushland, is held on Madaraka Day weekend each year. Even for non-competitors it is a fun event: camping out, watching some amazing driving feats, and enjoying the party each night. In 2015, the Lake Turkana Cultural Festival was also held on the Madaraka Day weekend, but it is not yet confirmed whether it will remain on these dates next year.

Traveling is one of the greatest things a person can do, there's nothing like meeting people in far off lands with different cultural backgrounds, taking in epic sights and trekking though majestic landscapes on foreign soil and eating exotic dishes.

Inside the Macworld Vault: A hidden collection of vintage Macs

Indian telecom operators said they are committed to work with the government on tackling the problem of call drops and are keen to undertake the joint exercise with the Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring (TERM) cells to address the issue.

"At the outset, we would like to submit that all our member operators are committed to work the DoT (Department of Telecom) and are keen to undertake the joint exercise with the TERM cell to address the issue of the call drops," said the Cellular Operators' Association of India and the Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India in a joint letter to the DoT. A copy of the letter dated July 30 which is available with IANS.

The DoT wrote a letter to the service providers on July 17 asking them to submit report on call drop issue by July 31.

Though the various speedruns, creative exploits, and super-creative challenges (including cooperative runs and blindfold runs) have been fun to watch over the past week, the crux of Summer Games Done Quick really centers on its fundraising efforts. The gaming marathon officially hit its donation goal of one million dollars on its final day of streaming, and ended up reaching a total of $1,232,747.90/Rs 7.88 crore (thanks to 28,474 donations). The average donation sat at just around $43/Rs 2,750, and the largest donation topped $21K/Rs 13.42 lakh—not bad at all.

"You have helped change the world. Keep helping others," continued Games Done Quick on Twitter.

As for the games, it's hard to narrow down to what we'd consider highlights, given that just about every game played during the seven days had something interested about it as a result of the focus on speed (or other crazy challenges).

But if you’re upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1, be aware that one feature won’t be available any more in the new version. Microsoft said earlier this year that Windows Media Center was dead, and indeed, there’s no direct replacement for it in Windows 10.

However, those who used to have Media Center will get a free Windows DVD Player app – although if you ever perform a clean install of Windows 10, you’ll lose the free app, and will have to buy it instead. And considering the new app offers only a small subset of Media Center’s features, we wouldn’t be surprised if some users consider it to be more trouble than it’s worth.

Oh, right, the Macalope and others. How silly. What a crazy thing to say and then say again as if to draw further attention to it. The Macalope regrets over-emphasizing the point that this was entirely knowable before the fact.

Disclaimer: He does not actually regret over-emphasizing that point.

Here’s where it takes a turn, though. Because despite what you might have read in the papers, history didn’t end last year. While Apple continues to sell iPhones like they’re whatever the Chinese equivalent of hot cakes is, Xiaomi’s fortunes are not assured, either.

Windows 10. Tomorrow's launch isn't the end of the road

The process of delivering and servicing Windows 10 will operate at a massive scale, with the potential to run as a continually updated set of services on a billion devices in two or three years.

The only ecosystem that comes close to this scale is Apple's combined OS X and iOS installed base. The Android ecosystem is probably bigger, but Google only runs the Google Play store and its own set of services. It doesn't deliver continuous operating system updates to those billion-plus devices.

With software at this scale, I expect there will be hiccups with Windows 10. Some will be annoying and frustrating, and the law of large numbers says even a small percentage of unhappy early upgraders will be able to make a lot of noise.

The nine-month-long Windows Insider program has done a decent job at its primary mission of providing feedback to influence feature designs and telemetry to measure and improve reliability. It's also established that those bugs can be fixed fairly quickly.

But there's nothing like shipping to millions of devices for the first time to discover the handful issues you missed completely.

The next two or three months should be interesting. We will read a lot of stories about bugs and problems in Windows 10's early days, you can be sure. I'll be monitoring forums and hearing from long-time correspondents (and even some new ones) via e-mail.

I've been documenting Windows 10's development through the Windows Insider program for the past nine months. Starting now, I get to monitor the public release of Windows 10 as well as what's coming up next.

Effective with the official launch, anyone who's been on the Insider program can bow and out and go back to the official release channels. You can also stay, and expect the next preview wave to start in a few weeks.

This Windows 10 milestone is important. For consumers and owners of existing PCs, it starts the clock on Microsoft's free-upgrade offer (only 364 days left!), and it also represents the first Long Term Servicing Branch release, not that very many Enterprise edition customers are going to opt in except for pilot projects.

Today's release is primarily about consumer markets and consumer devices. There's an enterprise case to be made for Windows 10, eventually. Those features will take time (a year, at least) and a lot of testing before enterprise customers are ready to consider deploying Windows 10 in any significant numbers.

But it's not the end of the road by any stretch of the imagination. With that thought in mind, here's my review of the first release of Windows 10.

It looks great, it works well, and it's good enough to satisfy the Windows 8 haters.

Windows 10 is not a complete repudiation of Windows 8, but it certainly downplays several of the signature features of Windows 8. The Charms bar is completely gone. A Start menu is built in, combining the general layout of the Windows 7 Start menu with Windows 8-style live tiles, which are smaller and confined to a restricted space on the Start menu.

The Start screen is gone unless you have a tablet, and even then the menu parts of the Start menu are still accessible.

First, to offer a high level of security, it uses the two-key method: users must have a private key and a public key. To send an email to someone, the sender must have the receiver's public key, which is published in a directory. The receiver then decodes the email using their private key, which is known only to them.

Such keys have been available in Germany for about 18 years. However, the agency that provides them charges about €100 for the service. Fraunhofer intends to remove this hurdle by providing keys for free.

The institute is making a no-cost app available on its website which will generate keys with a high-security key length of 2,000 bits. "The NSA can't break a key like that," Herbert said.